COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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Lighthouse's focus is on coastal resources and their watersheds. The team at Lighthouse believes that healthy ecosystems are a essential part of society and that coastal areas and their watersheds are particularly vulnerable and vitally important.

Although coastal lands are less than one-fifth of the inhabited land space, they contain almost half of today's global population of five billion people. The proportion of the world's people that will live along coastlines is expected to increase three-quarters by mid-century. To address the challenges of today and tomorrow (and with grateful acknowledgment to the long term lessons learned by Coastal Resources Center of the University of Rhode Island) we believe in the following:

• Integrated resource management is a process that includes developing, implementing and adapting sustainable solutions to resource use problems and conflicts.
• Work at both local and national levels of government is a strategic necessity with strong linkages between levels. Lighthouse's application of its cross learning experiences provide a virtual case study-based tool kit for clients.
• Build constituencies that support effective resource management through public information/awareness program.
• Develop an open, participatory and democratic process, involving all stakeholders in planning, implementation and longer term adherence to goals.
• Utilize the best available information for planning and decision making. Good programs understand and address the management implications of scientific knowledge.
• Commit to building capacity through short and long-term training and learning-by-doing.
• Complete the loop between planning and implementation as quickly and frequently as possible, using small projects that demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative policies.
• Recognize that programs undergo cycles of development, implementation and refinement, building on prior successes and adapting and expanding to address new or more complex issues.
• Set specific targets and monitor and self-evaluate performance.

   

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